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No one in the US is getting opioids for headaches. There are a lot of people in chronic pain in the US (car and motorcycle accidents, workplace accidents, genet
by throwaway5959 3y ago
No one in the US is getting opioids for headaches. There are a lot of people in chronic pain in the US (car and motorcycle accidents, workplace accidents, genetic disorders, etc).
- acdha 3y agoThe car accident one is really noticeable - it shows up over and over again in stories I’ve read about the crisis where someone started on opioids after getting insufficient treatment for some kind of crash and needing to go back to work before they were pain free, possibly compounded by a doctor being afraid of the DEA investigating them if they gave too many prescriptions which weren’t unambiguously necessary. I think a lot of our discussions about car safety saw fatalities declining and conflated “doctors are keeping more people from dying” with “driving getting safer”.